Eye of the Mountain
Read
Writing about breaking into reality.
Essays, memoir and poetry on attention, grief, belonging and aliveness. What does it take to live beyond survival and projection? How do we move towards participation and thriving?
Find a way in
Browse the archive
Theme
Series
Explore by literary character
All writing
140 pieces
Yesterday Grief, Today Mischief
Our moods can feel like prisons — grief, scarcity, rejection, emptiness. But they always pass, and when they do, something new arrives: mischief, lightness, curiosity. This piece is about honoring emotional extremes as teachers instead of fighting them.
Talking to a Ghost
For years, when I looked in the mirror, I didn’t just see myself — I saw a presence that haunted me. This piece is about facing that ghost differently, and how learning to speak with it became a way of reclaiming my own reflection.
Breathe in
Uses the cycle of inhaling and exhaling to connect regulation, sensitivity, joy, and growth. Breath becomes the meeting place of conscious intention and unconscious life, allowing vulnerability to function as an opening rather than a threat.
Venom to Medicine: the Alchemy of Growth
Presents shadow work as an alchemical practice for converting defensive traits into mature capacities—shame into honor, fear into courage, anger into boundaries, and envy into aspiration—through attention, grief, embodiment, and repetition.
A Taste of Life
This is what aliveness tastes like — the press of the throttle, the rise of the sun, the shiver of being seen. This poem is a hymn to those fleeting, infinite moments when the body remembers joy and the heart no longer flinches. It’s about flying, dancing, loving, forgiving, and realizing that every sensation — even pain — is proof that you’ve come back…
The elephant in the room
We think of the elephant as something awkward we pretend not to see. But the one I faced was vaster, heavier — a presence that filled not just a room, but my whole sense of reality. This reflection is about using all of our senses to meet what’s always been there, silently shaping everything.
Write it in blood if you must
Accompanies the reader through suicidal despair from the perspective of someone who survived its long recurrence. It treats surrender, truthful expression, and being witnessed as ways to remain in relationship with life when hope is unavailable.
The Helm of Dustiny
Uses a pirate-themed Burning Man build as the stage for reclaiming direction after years organized by trauma and borrowed desires. The handmade helm becomes a declaration against performing, chasing, and betraying one’s own path.
The Paradoxes of Wholeness
Argues that wholeness requires access to both sides of a polarity: risk as well as safety, softness as well as strength, immaturity as well as growth. Trauma narrows that range; integration restores the freedom to move between opposites.
Barefoot
This essay begins as a reflection on the simple act of walking without shoes — and unfolds into a lesson on sensitivity and connection. By feeling the earth directly, I explore how awareness in the body can ripple into awareness in relationships and daily life. It’s a piece about gentleness and remembering that belonging starts with attuned contact —…
Throat Chakra: voice
Treats the throat chakra as the meeting place of truth, authority, and expression, exploring how a silenced or adaptive voice can become direct, accountable, and powerful without losing love.
Third Eye Chakra: insight
Explores the third eye as discernment and pattern recognition: the capacity to question inherited stories, trust intuition, and remain curious at the edge between rational understanding and mystery.